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Star Trek Into Darkness

jkinsleyfilm wrote 1 day ago: Synopsis Directed by J.J. Abrams.  It starts on planet Nibiru where the crew fail to respect the pri … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 2013, Action & Adventure, alice eve, Anton Yelchin, benedict cumberbatch, Chris Pine, dir by J J Abrams, John Cho

The Paperboy

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 days ago: Synopsis Directed by Lee Daniels, set in 1960′s Florida.  The story is told by a black maid An … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 2012, David Oyelowo, dir Lee Daniels, John Cusack, Macy Gray, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, novel by Pete Dexter

In the House1 comment

jkinsleyfilm wrote 1 week ago: Synopsis Directed by François Ozon.  About a school teacher, Germain (Fabrice Luchini) who teaches l … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, World Cinema, 2012, Absorbing film, classroom situation, creepy black comic, Emmanuelle Seigner, Ernst Umhauer, Fabrice Luchini

The Place Beyond the Pines

jkinsleyfilm wrote 1 week ago: Synopsis Starring Ryan Gosling as Luke, a motorcyclist stuntman and bank robber, and Bradley Cooper, … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 2013, Anthony Pizza, Ben Mendelsohn, Bradley Cooper, Crime / Drama, Dane DeHaan, Derek Cianfrance, emery cohen

Oz the Great and Powerful

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 weeks ago: Synopsis Starts in black and white at a Kansas fair in 1905.  James Franco plays a fairground tricks … more →

Tags: Family entertainment, Film Reviews, 2013, abigail spencer, dir Sam Raimi, family movie, fantasy and science fiction, James Franco, L. Frank Baum novel

Compliance

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 weeks ago: Synopsis Set in a fast food restaurant named “Chickwitch”.  Sandra (Ann Dowd) is the bos … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 2012, 2013, Ann Dowd, Bill Camp, Compliance, dir Craig Zobel, Drama, dreama walker

I Give it a Year

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 weeks ago: Synopsis These are Minnie Driver’s words as she wonders how long the marriage between Nat (Ros … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Rose Byrne, Anna Faris, Jason Flemyng, rafe spall, 2013, British comedy, Stephen Merchant, Olivia Colman

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jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 weeks ago: Synopsis Starring Paul Rudd as the husband, Pete, and Leslie Mann as his wife, Debbie.  It’s a … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, john lithgow, Paul Rudd, Megan Fox, 2013, this is forty, Albert Brooks, charlyne yi, Leslie Mann

Stoker

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis Starring Nicole Kidman as Mrs Stoker whose husband Richard has just died (played by Dermot … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Jackie Weaver, Drama, psychological thriller, murder, Mia Wasikowska, Dermot Mulroney, 2013, Stoker

Zero Dark Thirty

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis About the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden.  Jessica Chastain plays Maya who leads … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Thriller, jessica chastain, Mark Strong, Jennifer Ehle, 2012, Jason Clarke, Zero Dark Thirty, Writer Mark Boal

Cloud Atlas

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis Based on the novel by David Mitchell (not considered filmable).  There are several stories: … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Sci-Fi, Ben Whishaw, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, James D'Arcy, 2013, novel by David Mitchell, dirs Andy and Lana Wachowski

Hitchcock

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis About the making of Hitchcock’s Psycho, Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock getting throu … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Drama, Helen Mirren, anthony hopkins, Biography, James D'Arcy, 2012, Scarlett Johansson, a film about making a film

Flight

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis Stars Denzel Washington as Whip Whittaker, an airline pilot who is a druggie and a drunkard … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Bruce Greenwood, John Goodman, 2012, flight, dir.Robert Zemeckis, Kelly Reilly, Adam Ciesieki, Brian Geraghty

The fringe of American-in-Tehran-ness

Jennifer Stob wrote 2 months ago: A quick bit of Oscar peevishness: skimming through Nate Silver’s Oscar predictions, it looks l … more →

Tags: argo, The Oscars, Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Godard, missed opportunities, Tabu

Lincoln

jkinsleyfilm wrote 2 months ago: Synopsis Spielberg’s film set in January 1865 at the start of the second term of Lincoln … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Drama, History, David Strathairn, Biography, 2012, John Hawkes, dir Steven Spielberg

Les Misérables

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis As nearly everyone on this planet knows, this is a globally successfull musical based on Vi … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Drama, Helena Bonham-Carter, Romance, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, 2012, Les Miserables, dir Tom Hooper

Django Unchained

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis Quentin Tarantino’s ‘spaghetti’ western in which Dr Schultz (Christoph Wa … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Django, 2013, Spaghetti Western, James Foxx, Kerry Washington

The Hunt

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis Thomas Vinterburg’s film about a teacher, Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a kindergarten help … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, World Cinema, 2012, Denmark, Screenplay Tobias Lindholm, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomos Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrom

Elena

jkinsleyfilm wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis Elena (Nadezdha Markina) is a middle aged woman living in a swish Moscow apartment with her … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, Independent Films, World Cinema, 2012, Family Drama, Elena, Elena Lydova, domestic crime, set in modern Moscow


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